A Paris-bound Air France flight from San Francisco was diverted to Montreal late Monday due to what the airline described as an "anonymous threat".

The airline said Flight 83 landed at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport without incident and local authorities were inspecting the plane. Air France described the early landing as "a precaution."

According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, the Boeing 777 took off from San Francisco International Airport shortly after 3 p.m. local time and was due to land in Paris Tuesday morning.

Passenger Thomas Serval posted pictures of the inside of the cabin as passengers were taken off in small groups. Officials at the Montreal Airport told Canadian media the flight was carrying 231 passengers and 15 crew members.

The aircraft was the third Air France flight to be diverted in less than a month due to threats. On the night of Nov. 17, two Paris-bound flights received anonymous telephoned bomb threats. One flight, originating from Los Angeles, was diverted to Salt Lake City; the other, from Washington Dulles Airport, was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

U.S. and Canadian authorities gave both flights the all-clear after searching the plane and the passengers. The earlier threats came four days after ISIS terrorists killed 130 people in a series of coordinated shootings and bombings across Paris.

An Air France passenger plane on its way to Paris from San Francisco was diverted to Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Canada, late on Mondayfollowing an "anonymous" bomb threat, the carrier said.

The flight was operated with a Boeing 777, with approximately 200 passengers on board, Air France KLM said.

The airline declined to elaborate further on the nature of the threat. Local authorities are currently checking all passengers, luggage, as well as the aircraft. Air France hopes to resume the flight in two hours

The ship is a recurring backdrop for White House hopefuls visiting South Carolina.

Trump will return to the state next weekend for an event in Aiken, S.C., The Associated Press reported, where he is booked for a forum on Saturday over constitutional issues moderated by state Attorney General Alan Wilson.

Trump boasts a 6-point lead in South Carolina over other Republican White House hopefuls, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of samplings.

He earns 29 percent, compared with 22.7 percent for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, his closest competition in South Carolina. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) currently ranks in third place with 13.3 percent.

Trump has also previously used naval battleships as scenery for his speeches on the campaign trail. He delivered an address on national security from the decks of the USS Iowa in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

in the
hours after a mass shooting that left 14 dead and dozens injured—the
deadliest mass shooting since the 2012 Newtown massacre—investigators
identified Syed Farook, a U.S. citizen and employee of the San
Bernardino County’s public-health department, as one of the two
shooters. They have yet to identify a motive.
So far, says assistant F.B.I. director David Bowdich, terrorism has not been ruled out, but San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan suggested the incident could have been a workplace dispute that turned violent.
Farook, 28, and his new wife, 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik, both died
after a car chase and a shootout with the police, leaving behind a
6-month-old child. (The two wed after an online courtship, with Farook
going to Saudi Arabia to meet her.) An officer was wounded as well, but
is expected to make a full recovery.
According to the Los Angeles Times,
the shooting occurred during Farook’s office holiday party, held in a
rented room in the Inland Regional Center. Disappearing during a group
photo, Farook soon came back with his wife, heavily armed and wearing
tactical gear, and began firing into the crowd of co-workers.
Colleagues were shocked and confused that Farook would do such a thing, with one telling the L.A. Times
that he appeared to be “living the American dream,” and another saying
that the office had thrown a baby shower for him recently.
Farook left the party “under some circumstances that were described as angry,” said Burguan.
Family members also told the press that they were blindsided by the
attacks: in a press conference held at the L.A. chapter of the Council
of American-Islamic Relations, Farook’s brother-in-law Farhad Khan
expressed his condolences and said he had “no idea why he would do
something like this. . . . I am in shock myself.” CAIR officials also
vigorously condemned the shooting.
Farook’s father, also named Syed Farook, told the New York Daily News that his son was “very religious.”
Vocativ reports that while extremists on ISIS-affiliated Web forums celebrated the shooting, they did not take responsibility for it.
Farook and Malik used four firearms—two assault rifles and two
handguns—and so far authorities have determined that at least two of
those guns were purchased legally.
The shooting shut down much of San Bernardino on Wednesday afternoon,
with all city schools and government buildings placed on lockdown and
the public advised to stay indoors. Several witnesses told the L.A. Times
how they watched the day unfold, from the disbelief that a shooting was
actually occurring in their hometown (“It’s shocking that it’s right
across the way,” a local tech worker said) to the desperate attempts to
find loved ones.
In a statement that echoed the dozens of similar statements he gave this year, President Barack Obama
acknowledged the victims and their families, and added: “The one thing
we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this
country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”